Apple announced it is collaborating with Brigham and Women’s Hospital to launch the Apple Health Study, which will use various data from Apple devices to help predict, detect and manage physical and mental health and overall wellbeing.
The study will use the association between data to examine the relationship between various areas of health, such as how exercise affects sleep and vice versa or mental health’s influence on heart rate.
“The Apple Health Study really breaks down the boundaries between different parts of physiology and biology in a way that I think acknowledges the reality of human nature, where we know that all of our systems are connected to each other,” Dr. Calum MacRae, cardiologist and principal investigator of the Apple Health Study at Brigham and…